pkes):nt uav i-orkstkv ix Austria 561 



achievements. Another little note announces the formation of an 

 American company with a capital of $125,000 in l^ressburg (Czecho- 

 slovakia) for the manufacture of furniture and parquet flooring. 



Austria has lost her greatest forests by the breaking up of the mon- 

 archy and cessions to Italy. Poland and Czecho-Slovakia are now far 

 more important as timber producers. Nevertheless the cause of for- 

 estry is not being forgotten, but indeed has become even more im- 

 portant since the remaining stands have an increased value not only 

 for themselves, but for their vv^atershed protection. No matter what 

 our newspapers say Austria is going to do politically, turn back to a 

 monarchy or go on to a Bolshevik state, her forest policies appear to 

 rest in good hands and we may expect the continuance of the best 

 technical forest administration that is possible under the financial and 

 economic conditions existing there. 



